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  2. List of best-selling fiction authors - Wikipedia

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    Authors of comic books are not included unless they have been published in book format (for example, comic albums, manga tankōbon volumes, trade paperbacks, or graphic novels). Authors such as Jane Austen, Miguel de Cervantes, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Rick Riordan, Ernest Hemingway, Jack ...

  3. List of Nobel laureates in Literature - Wikipedia

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    [5] 17 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2023, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of ...

  4. Ten Novels and Their Authors - Wikipedia

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    Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1954 work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham. [1] Maugham collects together what he considers to have been the ten greatest novels and writes about the books and the authors. The ten novels are: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (1749) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

  5. List of American novelists - Wikipedia

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    Having a substantial body of work, widely respected and reviewed in major publications, and perhaps often nominated or a finalist for major awards. A pioneering literary figure, possibly for the style or substance of their entire body of work, or for a single novel that was a notable "first" of some kind in U.S. literary history.

  6. Renaissance literature - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]

  7. List of 21st-century writers - Wikipedia

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    This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters").

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